*California cities with populations exceeding 300,000. Murder includes non-negligent manslaughter. A murder is considered solved, or cleared, when there’s been an arrest or when a case is solved without an arrest, such as when an offender dies. A murder is counted in the year it happened. A clearance is counted in the year it happened. Oakland’s solved murders are estimated.

2007 wages for Oakland’s 10 current homicide investigators and their rank among 1,000 Oakland Police Department employees, based on total compensation including overtime:

Oakland Police Department’s homicide investigators had an annual base salary last year of $100,576, before overtime, according to city records. This was in line with a statewide average of about $100,000, according to Dennis Kilcoyne, president of the California Homicide Investigators Association. In San Francisco the base wage was $106,990.